Brad Shaffer, member of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) Faculty Advisory Cabinet and a frequent SLA GC collaborator, was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, Shaffer is also the director of the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science.
Shaffer’s research has most recently been focused on conservation genomics of endangered and ecologically important plants and animals of California, global conservation of freshwater turtles and tortoises, and the application of genomics to the protection of endangered California amphibians and reptiles.
Learn more about Shaffer and the ten other UCLA faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at UCLA Newsroom.
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